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I have a link to a slow and fast mp3 of this steel string white oak. Excuse my playing! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58501732/Steel% ... 20Fast.mp3 .http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58501732/Steel% ... 20Slow.mp3 Hope it works? My mp3's were 1.8 MB it said it was too large? My wife took the pictures, so be kind. A couple of firsts, other than building with white oak on a steel string. I built this one with no forms, used tentalones on the top, mitered side purfling, slottless pins and sound port. I'm happy with sound, keeping in mind the trebles will mature. Specs- white oak back and sides, Lutz top, Maple & walnut rosette, maple, cherry,walnut purflings, Pau Ferro FB, headplate and bridge and walnut neck. Enjoy! Clinton

Beautiful!

After building with Oak myself - it's one of the terribly under appreciated tonewoods out there... I was glad to see you built one!

Thanks

looks good! nice work on those miters on the cut away

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Kyle

Very nice!!

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The guitar looks great.
Excuse your playing? What'd ya mean?
Your playing is great.

Thanks for sharing.

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Nice guitar! How was the porefill?

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Francis Richer, Montréal
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*double post*

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Francis Richer, Montréal
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Very nice. I have quite a bit of White Oak drying, can't wait to try it out.

Very nice, Clinton!

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Nice to see a white oak guitar. I bet it was fun to porefill. Great Job Clinton!

Beautiful! I have a board of curly white oak in the "to be used someday" pile. How thick did you go with the back? How did it bend?

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very beautiful guitar. Sounds fantastic.
I have a few boards of QS oak from a library. It must be English oak as most of the old forests here have ended up in lining the walls of "our great institutions".
Still, I'm lucky to have some, can't wait to bend it into shape (in about 10 years time).
How did you do the rosette like that?

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Thanks guys! Joe- I milled up 1x1" walnut. Ripped them on the angle I wanted. Laid in some maple veneer and then glued back up. Then ripped it again on the next angle and glued it back together again. I think I did it 5 or 6 times, cleaned it up and I had my logs. Bryan- I took the back to .095", trying to get a 1/2 note above the top when tuned. Francis, Mark-I used a product called TimberMate- water-based. It's a bit dusty when sanding, I only did it twice and it went pretty quick. Joe- Sounds like beautiful wood! Like to see that myself. I made a classical last year with White Oak, and it's my favorite to play. Here's a link to me playing it. I'm no classical player, although I love listening to classical guitar in the shop! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58501732/Classi ... Jesus_.mp3 Clinton

it looks like the oak has some bearclaw also.
very nice!

Honestly, I wouldn't have thought it possible, but you just proved me wrong. It sounds very nice to me (don't apologize for your playing). The binding details, in particular, look exquisite to me. I like your cutaway design very much, too. Very, very nice all the way around.

I agree with everybody above! A beautiful guitar, extremely well
executed. Your miters are great, and I also like the
shape of the cutaway. I'm going to pick up some oak my next time
at the lumberyard, and get it cut down to age. Definately a wood to
try! And I'd love to be able to play as well as you. I especially liked
the second piece in your first post.

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That's Oak, huh? Gotta have me summa dat. Excellent work.

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Its beautiful Oak can make a great instrument . Nice work !

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I believe it's sometimes referred to as "flaked" oak.
In UK I've also heard it called "flamed" for obvious reasons, but this term is perhaps more properly used for used for the technique of marking oak with a bloworch or similar to decorative effect!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Don't ya just love the look of those rays in white oak? Nice looking guitar.

I'm building ladder back chairs right now out of white oak. We have a barn built in the 20's that was left to die a long time ago. It's falling apart but it's made of beautiful white oak which I am reclaiming. Nice stuff.

I have not been a big fan of oak (until now). I really don't like the look of flatsawn oak and I never really warmed up to quartered oak. The rays are indeed striking, but they usually are too random, to my eye, and distract from the shape of the piece. When my wood place said they had a curly bur oak coming out of the kiln, I bought a more rift-sawn piece. Now I wish I would have gotten some of the quartered stuff. I have never seen it on a guitar, but now see that (unlike furniture) the rays can really compliment the shape of a guitar. Again, this is a really beautiful guitar!

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When you filled with Timbermate how did you deal with th different colored woods?

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Thanks guys for all the compliments. I'm humbled by the work done on this forum. James- What I did was I put a heavy layer of shellac on the areas I didn't want to be affected by the dye. Remember I added dye to the pore filler. I would add enough shellac on the rosewood bindings until they didn't bleed on the pad, then used an eraser to aid in "aiming" my sanding of the filler. I didn't want to "color" my purfling either so I used the same method on them as well. I wanted to bring more of a red color out on the white oak. Now that I'm thinking about it, sounds kinda crazy dyeing "white" oak "red" ! Actually mahogany. Clinton

Looks great!!!!!!

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I love that. The rosette is insane.